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investigators don't know what they refer to. before we spend too much time on the shooter, we're going to hear from a survivor. one official told cnn's barbara star that there is blood everywhere. he knows it's sheer luck he's alive when so many of his friends have died. john weaver knew six of them personally. he joins me now. you were at your desk. you heard a commotion, a loud noise. somebody was rolling a large cart through the ateryium which

normally occurs many times. i remarked that it sounded like somebody was skateboarding on the ceiling. she made a chuckle and a really loud bang occurred. i thought to myself, they dropped another safe, because they had done that before and it sounded similar to that. two seconds later, there was another really loud bang. that's when i realized that somebody was in the building shooting people. >> so you knew that's what it was? >> yeah, i knew that there shouldn't be two bangs that loud close together. >> and then what is this. >> i stupidly pop my head up and saw him reach over into my cube row and diagonally shoot across the row to where one of my friends was sitting. i could not see her because it's

diagonal to me, caddie corner, and he aimed and shot directly at her. and i popped my head back down and then went under my desk. there's a cabinet with two drawers and i pulled that towards me and hid under the desk. so if he walked down the row, he would have just seen the desk. >> so he was actually aiming at people? >> oh, no, the reason he did not see me is because he was so intent on shooting her. she told me she was looking him dead in the eye when he shot her. >> this co-worker was released last night and she's doing well. >> she's doing very well. we spoke with each other this morning and i was just so glad that she was alive and that nothing else happened to her and that she got out. and then, when he shot her, she

told me the force of the blast was so strong, it drove her into the ground and bits of her scalp are scattered all over her cubicle. >> oh, my gosh. >> it was that close to her being killed. her right finger is blown off almost completely at the tip. she went like that and it got her on this side of her head. so what happened was, he shot at her and then i ducked, hid, i heard him take another shot, that's when he shot mary knight. the reason i know, it was definitely two shots, the first one was frank. the second one was j.j. the third one was her, and then the fourth one was mary knight. because after she was shot, she turned around while she was curled up and watched him shoot

her. i mean, i told her, she's the bravest, quickest and luckiest person on the face of the earth. >> all in all, how many shots did you hear this guy fire? >> after i went down, that was four shots. he walked away, two more shots and then he proceeded, i think through the corridor between the kitchenettes and proceeded over into the zero xri spaces and shot people over there. i called d.c. 911 from my cellphone at that point. there must have been 20 to 30 shots dourg that time. and the feeling of being so helpless that you could not help those people and you just had to stay in place. >> the point where you saw him, that's when he was using the shot gun? >> he had the shot gun the whole time when i was there.

i never heard any other type of firearm except the shot gun. >> you know, i mean, you personally, you're friends with, you've lost a lot of friends? >> yeah, six people i personally knew in that building. i reported directly to mary knight every day about stuff. j.j. worked with me and submitted forms to me they passed on to somebody else for approval. jerry reed, i saw him every day in the halls and worked with him but not in a direct fashion. sylvia frazier, i worked with directly every day. that's the person i'm most sad about. she was the nicest person in the world. i cannot believe that man killed her. i can't believe that. and pandit, i knew him too, but i hadn't worked with him. he was one of my users when i was assistant admin in their

group. i've worked in this building for 13 years. so i know a bunch of people. i know who kathy is just by seeing her in the halls. >> i spoke to her and her daughter jessica yesterday. obviously they are beyond devastated. to say the least. >> it's just something when it happened, it was like, you had to tell yourself that this was really happening, while it was going on. that's how just surreal it was. i mean, it was real, but it was sur rile at the same time. >> yeah, i understand that. so what happened, when he started going away and i got off the phone with d.c. 911, the fire alarm went off. i'd say it was about five minutes after the shooting started. i pushed my desk out and i said run. when i ran around the corner, i saw mary knight dead laying on the ground basically and what i

did, i kneeled over her and checked her by looking straight into her eye and to see if there was consciousness and there was none. i knew there was nothing i could do for her. i got up and a ran. i went down the stairs, i saw my friend standing there. i couldn't believe she was there. it was that shocking. i said to her, what happened? i didn't want to say, have you been shot? she goes, i've been shot. i looked at her and her finger was torn off. basically it was a really bad manicure. and then the back of her head was scraped off. i looked at her and told her i've gotten a bigger scrape playing hockey. so i'm running down the stairs, telling people run for your lives, there's a guy shooting people. i got to the first floor.

there was a bunch of people in the conference room and everybody just started scattering. she ran over some woman who was just -- i mean people went into a complete panic at that point. and we basically ran out of the building over to the 197 parking garage. then i saw an officer there that i recognized. because i've seen these guys all the time. i said there's a guy up on the fourth floor, he's slaughtering people with a shot gun. you guys need to get up there with a lot of weapons. >> as you look back on this, there are obviously a lot of questions being asked. is there something you particularly want answers to? >> you know, i mean, really it's how that guy got a security clearance. you know, because if the system supposed to work, that stuff should have been caught by the people doing his security clearance. you guys found that information

readily available. that's the thing that i'm angry about the most. i don't blame the building security or anybody like that, because they don't expect this to happen. you know, he came in and he's a normal worker there. those guys carry backpacks everywhere they go. they have a lot of paperwork and computer accessories. >> so he wouldn't have raised any suspicions? >> oh, no. there's people carrying backpacks all the time in there. that doesn't raise a suspicion at all. and he badged right in with a valid i.d. i believe he badged in, went to the elevator, came up the elevator, went toward the bathroom that's across the east-west corridor divide from us. came out of that bathroom, start side shooting everybody there and basically went in a clockwise fashion around the core of the building. came back to our area, i believe he went over to the east side. at that point, i vacated the

premises, probably out of the building within seven minutes after everything started. >> i know beyond telling people what happened, you want to let people know about your friends and co-workers who lost their lives and what they were like and honor them. >> every one of those people who were killed were the nicest people that you could know. they were great co-workers and would never harm a fly. and they were responsible, great people, government workers and contractors. i just cannot believe they were subjected to that most violent, horrible death. me, i got lucky. it was my birthday. i'm the second luckiest, my friend was the first luckiest. but all those people, they did not deserve that death.

it's horrible. that's all i have to say about that. >> thank you very much, john. >> i'm going to miss them all very much. >> john weaver is not the only one who wants to know how the navy yard killer got his security clearance to begin with and held on to it despite repeated run-ins with the police. as we reported last night, the navy gave hik his initial security clearance when 2007 when he enlisted. at the time they knew he had been involved in a violent incident in seattle. but they issued the clearance anyway. we'll get to the security questions in a minute. but first the breaking news about the sense of the shooting. what do we know here at the scene? >> we're learning now the building where the shooting took place may not be open for several weeks because of the damage inside. the damage from first responders

were breaking down doors, trying to get in there to get at the shooter, but more from the mayhem that aaron alexis unleashed there. there are descriptions that there is, quote, blood everywhere, damage, everywhere, a truly gruesome scene. >> the question that a lot of people are asking is how the system did not pick this guy up. today even the defense secretary acknowledged a lot of red flags. can you piece together what we know? >> i was at the briefing today with secretary chuck hagel. you had many warning signs here, but no one was able to connect the dots. but when you look at them individually, it's amazing that no one was. he went to the rhode island police, told them this delusional story of being

followed, being controlled by a microwave machine. they passed it to the local station, but not to washington. high went to a v.a. hospital twice in the weeks leading up to the shooting. he also took medicine for ringing in his ears. that in addition to his two arrests and also his departure from the navy because of a series of episodes of misconduct. the fact that he still had a security clearance, valid for ten years, from 2007 when it was issued. >> i understand we heard from the shooter's mother today. what did she say? >> she had clearly been asked many times for an interview. she refused to, but she did want

to make a statement. when you hear it, you hear a mother who is heart broken, but also taking on guilt from what her son did. >> our son, aaron alexis has murdered 12 people and wounded several others. his actions have had a profound and ever-lasting effect on the families of the victims. i don't know why he did what he did. and i'll never be able to ask him why. aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do hearm and for that i'm glad. to the families of the victims, i am so, so very sorry that this has happened. my heart is broken. >> jim, thank you.

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>> crime and punishment now. a 14-year-old abducted in the middle of the night from her home in front of her family is safe tonight. two suspects are now in custody. the investigation nowhere near over and authorities are looking whether the kidnappers may have ties to the teen's family. warren saf ij reports. >> this is a good day. >> the nightmare gr a georgia teengeer and her family ended 34 hours after it began. >> she is safe. she's been reunionified with her family. >> they say she was found 25 miles from her home, and that she had never left the metro atlanta area. officials say two men are under arrest and two others still at large. according to authorities, it began after 2:00 a.m. when they

burst into the home, terrorizing the family. >> the suspects shot the dog. >> police say they demanded jewelry and money, when they didn't get it, they took something far more precious, their 14-year-old. >> we thought we lived in a safe neighborhood. now we're not really sure what's going on here. >> rumors spread of ransom demands. friends and classmates held a candle light vigil. >> father, we pray that you be with her all the days of her life. >> the next day those prayers were answered. >> we have outstanding news. >> so what was the big break? authorities were vague. but the number of suspects suggests something more than a random break-in. authorities were asked about a possible link between the

victim's family and the suspect. again the answers were vague. >> we have not determined the relationship at this particular point in time. >> for the moment, those questions can wait as a family gets back a daughter feared lost. >> it's amazing she's back. what do you know about the suspects and what if any connection they have to the victim? >> this story definitely has a lot more to it. i think the big thing, at the beginning of the week, authorities said it was a random home invasion. when you have four suspects, it goes beyond that. it smacks of a conspiracy. that raises the question, why did they break into that home? who were they looking for? what were they looking for? >> martin. appreciate the update. in colorado, thousands of people are surveying their homes. nearly 18,000 homes have been damaged throughout the state.

the sheriff says there are major issues about how to get emergency services to areas where roads have been washed out. another issue is protecting homes that have been evacuated. each day presents new challenges as well. here's an exclusive report. >> reporter: this is the flood as it roared past johnathan's home. captured on his cellphone last week, ignoring warnings to evacuate. it was so forceful, it swallowed the road, pounding everything in its path. today that same road is caved in. this road can no longer support cars. only his bike. >> empty on fuel for our generator. making a trade-off here. >> a friend drives fuel to meet him. then he makes the long bike ride back into his canyon home where

his family waits. the gas runs a generator. his wife collects water from the overflowing creek for their toilets. welcome to their new normal after colorado's historic floods. >> as long as the generator keeps working, we're doing great. >> the massive flood ripped apart northern colorado's infrastructure. federal officials say hundreds of miles of highway and 30 bridges are destroyed or impassab impassable. police have to reroute traffic for fear of more injuries and deaths. fema says it will take years to rebuild at a cost of millions of dollars. across these canyons, churches sit under water and homes on their sides. >> how forceful was this flood? it broke through the wall of

this building. and this is the weight of the sludge that they're actually having to clean up. the water filled this business all the way up to our waist, and this is just one of 7,000 homes in businesses in just two counties damaged or destroyed. for four days, ann has been digging through the muck at her antique market. it never stops being hard. what is it like to see this place like this? >> it's devastating. sorry. to see it like this, it's just sometimes hopeless, but it's not really, but it is. >> it's incredible. >> so to add insult to injury, i understand it rained heavily where you were today? >> yeah, pretty hard. there are people outside at the time. and a woman ran by me with her hands in the air, saying, are you kidding me?

the forecast was only 10 to 20% chance of rain, but it rained very hard for 30 minutes to an hour. the ground is so saturated. you can see what happens right away. one thing we learned, the amount of rain they've gotten this year is the most they've received in 120 years that led a forecaster here to call it biblical. >> appreciate the update. for more on the story go to cnn.com. a government shutdown looming. we'll have the raw politics on that. a young man shot dead by police officers, his family is demanding answers. 21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today... will power us all...

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real politics. the federal government could be on the vernal of shutting down. as a battle is brewing over the fiscal year. today they said they will approve a stop gap bill that will keep them running till december. republicans also plan to insist on spending cuts. president obama denounced the move. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states, the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party, and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt. >> let's get the latest from capitol hill. during the summer it seems the

house republican leadership did not want to this to happen. they didn't want to do this. what happened? >> reporter: what happened, they got a lot of pushback from the conservative grassroots. for five weeks, conservative groups were out there pounding away, saying, look, this is why we got you into office. this is what we want you to do. and this is the best leverage we have, try to repeople obama care even if it means shutting down the government. this is something i asked the speaker about. he wasn't publicly against it, but we knew that privately he was against it. so i asked, what gives? >> i know it's not been easy to be the speaker over this caucus, but have you lost control at this point? >> we've got a lot of different opinions in caucus. the key to any leadership job is to listen. we listen to our colleagues over the course of the last week. we have a plan that we're happy

with and we're going forward. >> the bottom line is that the speaker and his fellow leaders have trouble with the same group of about 40 or so people in their caucus that they've had lots of other issues these past few years and the votes weren't there for them to keep the government running without reverses obama care. >> so it's just about placating the more conservative members? >> the supporters say it's for principle. but i can tell you that tonight we've seen a real divide inside the republican party. one of the big issues has been that house republicans who feel like, at least the leaders feel like they're walking the plank, they're angry at some of the chief supporters, ted cruz, and marco rubio, because they released a statement saying they don't have the votes in the senate. this suggests they're not going to try to filibuster, you're not

even go going to try. this is a quote. wendy davis has more balls than ted cruz. she stood and filibustered for hours and hours on an issue there. >> quite an interesting use of language there. when is the house expected to vote on this? >> the house is expected to vote as soon as thursday, maybe friday, but definitely this week. because they do seem to have the votes there, the ball is going to be in the senate's court. then the question does become whether or not ted cruz and company can filibuster. i should say in ted cruz' defense, i spoke with an aid to him who said they haven't ruled out filibustering. they'll use whatever means they have, but all we do know, it's so uncertain. there's no end game. it's likely to go right down to

the wire, september 30th at midnight if they don't pass something to keep the government running. >> he was looking for help, he was killed by police. a tragic story. also tonight, incredible video of a man trying to escape an apartment fire by dangling from the fourth floor window. see how people stepped in to save his life. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase.

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crime and punishment sigment now. a police officer in north carolina is charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting to death an unarmed 24-year-old man. the confrontation happened in the middle of the night. police were brought to the scene by a frantic 911 call from a woman who believed the young man was trying to break into her home. authorities now believe he knocked on her door seeking help. the officer is white, the dead man is african american. >> reporter: 2:30 in the morning, johnathan farrell has just survived a horrific car crash. police say he climbs out the back window of this four-door sedan and stumbles to the nearest house for help. when he knocks loudly, the woman

inside panics and called 911. >> i need help. there's a guy breaking in my front door. >> you said he's a black male? >> yes. >> we're on our way. >> what happens next is hard to fathom. keep in mind, farrell is unarmed. police arrived minutes after receiving the 911 call. one officer tries to phaser him, but it fails to bring him down. then the officer opens fire. >> as the officers approach him to determine if he's the individual, what's going on, he just immediately takes off and runs toward a particular officer and that officer attempted to retreat. but at the same time fired his weapon. >> reporter: the chief says the officer fired his weapon 12

times, striking jonathan farrell ten times. he dies at the scene. officer caric said he had minor injuries and refuses treatment. farrell's mother wants to know why her son had to die. >> my baby don't own a gun. not even a pocket knife. it breaks my heard he was looking for help and no one helped him. >> reporter: the 24-year-old farrell was a star athlete, playing football for florida a&m university in 2009 or 2010. he was a chemistry major. the police dash cam video hasn't been released to the media, but the family's attorney says he's viewed it. on it farrell is seen running toward the officers, arms outstretched, hands empty. >> you could tell he's unarmed. he approached the officer and

immediately two dots in the center of his chest. then he gets excited, wait, wait, wait, stop, he's coming forward. one, two, three, four, pause. one, two, three, four, five, six, pause. one two. >> reporter: the officer turned himself after the shooting. he told investigators the suspect assaulted him by unknown means. he's charged with voluntary manslaughter. >> we're confident the resolution of this case, it will be found the officer's actions were justified on the night in question. >> reporter: justified or not, the shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white officer has outraged some in the black community. the president of the naacp says

shooting black men has -- >> officer randal caric is out of jail now, free on $50,000 bond. the other two officers who were also at the scene are on paid administrative leave. >> we want to dig deeper on this. mark gar gos. sunny hostin and kevin flannigan join us. >> mark, what do you make of this case? >> well, i think it's an exception to the rule. generally when a cop shoots somebody, you don't see the prosecution or the cops file charges or arrest somebody. usually there's an investigation, then they make some decision as to whether or not it was excessive force or anything else. i think in this case, you've got a situation that clearly is based on race, as far as i can

tell. and that's what's driving this. >> you're saying that because the man who was shot was african american and the officer was white? >> i think there's a perception, if you see a large black male running at you and you're a white cop, i hate to drill it down that simple, that sometimes, different situation, if he had been of some other ethnicity. >> you say you don't know how this is not a case of excessive force? >> i think that's right. excessive force is generally subjective. what was the cop feeling at the time? but i don't know how you explain it as justified when someone shoots 12 times and hits an unarmed man ten times. i think mark has a point when he talks about race being a factor. what was the officer's perception? why did he immediately feel the

need to shoot? that just doesn't make much sense. >> when you hear 12 shots, does that instantly raise red flag for you? >> no. my guess is that's all he had in his magazine. that ones he started shooting, he stopped when he ran out of bullets. >> aren't you trained to shoot one or twice and then sort of pause? >> there are a tap, tap, two shots, two shots, two shots. there's rapid fire, but it's up to the individual, their fear level and their reaction to an adverse situation. you know, you can only assume that this officer panicked at the time and fired until he had nothing left. >> a lot of these instances happen quickly. and studies have shown if they're able to deescalate or have a few seconds' pause, it can make all the difference.

>> absolutely. i'm of the understanding there was a taser fired first. so there was some type of perceived threat preceding the shooting, one officer fires a taser, and the other fires his weapon. so something else happened in that window of time. the 911 call stayed on the phone for the duration of the police's arrival. there has to be something else that nobody knows about yet. >> i think kevin's point is a good one. because if the other officer shot off the taser, then obviously he also perceived a risk. what does that mean? what does that tell us? what was jonathan farrell doing? why were they so fearful of him? >> what is police training or procedure in terms of drawing your weapon and actually firing? >> you draw your weapon to -- in

essence, it's a deescalation. common sense, if somebody has a gun drawn on you, you're not going to approach the person. when you have your gun drawn, you're trying to take control, you want to keep a distance of safety, want to protect yourself, your partner and the public. i don't know what happened, somebody fires a stun gun to tase the guy and the second officer shoots. but i doubt that at 2:30 in the morning they had in their minds that they were going to go kill somebody. >> how is that justifiable? police officers are trained to deescalate. how is shooting off 12 rounds a deescalation? >> also we don't know how long this officer had been on the force. all of these things, the more experienced you are to kind of think rationally in an emergency -- >> but you shouldn't be responding to this type of call

if you aren't capable of handling it. >> it's your job. you respond. things happen. >> you don't get a pass to only respond when you're out on the street to only these kinds of incidents or those kinds of incidents. i think what they're going to say is, i think they're already developing the defense, they're going to say this officer was out there, they had a 911 call. the woman was clearly frightened and agstated and scared. they responded. the taser was used. for whatever reason, either the taser malfunctioned or dntd have the impact it was supposed to. therefore he fired his weapon and discharged all of it because the taser didn't work. it could be an unfortunate confluence of factors, but it's a very tough case for the prosecution. >> thank you. two cases from 40 years ago,

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its latest steering system is so easy to handle, even a hamster can do it. i'm no veterinarian, but will someone tell me how a hamster is going to steer a truck when he can't see out the window. >> we'll have the driver guide the hamster with a carrot. >> oh, yes, the old hamster running after a carrot on a wheel to steer a truck. i got to see how this one turns out. ♪ >> that was close. okay, be careful. >> yeah!

>> lesson learned. if you have a hamster, let him drive your vehicle. got it? this represents leaps and bounds of respect for the hamster. for years we thought of him as a star of a certain viral video. but if it's good enough for ricky gervais, it's good enough for me. >> my favorite animal thing is hamster on a piano. listen. ♪ hamster on a piano ♪ hamster on a piano ♪ hamster on a piano >> there's a tremendous amount of competition in the rodent world. yes, a hamster can drive trucks, but can they skate board? i know what you're thinking, they're not really doing anything. fine. how about this one? surfing mice. there they are hanging ten.

do mice have ten toes or hooves? i don't know. mickey mouse always had big shoes on. mice are all about activities. is everybody stoned? i don't know what's going on. ask them to test your dynamic steering system, and they're all like, no way, man, i'm going surfing, smell you later. i believe it was aesop who said this, what is going on? you never send a mouse to do a hampster's job. all right, that does it for this edition of 360. a.c. 360 later is up next.

he would tell me that under monday were murdered in cold blood. nine men, three women. each one had a family. a survivor of the massacre, john weaver, knows it's simple luck he is alive and they are not. here's what he told me. >> every one of those people who